Elastic belt



I 1,483,192 Feb. l2 1924 G. LANGGONS ELASTIC BELT Filed March 30. 1922 Parenteel ifea ia ieee,

aeaaiea GEORGE LANGGoNs, or BROOKLYN, New Yoan.

Application filed March 30, 1922. Serial No. 548,075.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE. LANGGoNs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings an'd State 5 of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elastic Belts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to elastic belts and the object of the invention is to provide an l ordinary canvas or leather belt, .or a belt of any .other inelastic material With an insert of elastic material.

It is a well-known fact that the ends of a belt wear much faster-than the rest thereof l on account of the repeated buckling and unbuckling and consequent bending. For this reason I make both ends of the belt of some good wearing material, which will Astand a great deal of bending and buckling and the 'D intermediate portion of good rubber secured in a suitable manner to the two end pieces.

In the accompanying di'awing:

Figure 1 shows a perspective view ofthe invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary longitudinal section ofa belt, and f Figure 3 is a partial perspective view and fragmentary section of a modified form of 3o my belt. l

In Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing is shown a belt consisting of two end pieces 10 and 11 made of canvas or any other similar'material and held together means of a buckle 12. Between these two end pieces an intermediary section 18 is provided which is preferably positioned as seen in Figure 2 at the back portion of the belt, or there may be one situated at. eachside thereof. `This intermediate section 13 is made vof good rubber without any reinforcing fabricA or matenial and isconnected with the end pieces 10 and 11 respectively by means of a vulcanized joint seen at 14 and 15 in Figure 2. In other words, no stitching whatsoever is used, as this is apt to tear the rubber and destroy the joint.

The modification shown in Figure 3 consists as before of an intermediary section 16 of rubber but having the two end portions 17 and 18 made of leather. As it would be impossible to vulcanize the rubber section 16 on to the leather Without burning the latter I make use of two short strips of canvas 19 and 20, which as before are vulcanized on 55 to the intermediary rubber sect-ion 16, as best seen at21. To these canvas strips 19 and 20 the leather ends 17 and 18 are now secured by means of stitching, as shown at 22 and 23 and it should be observed that no 60 stitching` occurs in the rubber section itself but only in the vulcanized ends where the canvas strips 19 and 20 are situated.

. It may at times be preferable to provide two 'or more elastic pieces in the belt instead 65 of the single one shown in Figure 1.

Having thus described the invention` what is claimed vas new is:

1. A' ,belt comprising end sections of f leather and 'an intermediatesection of rub- 70 ber, a strip of canvas vulcanized to each end of said rubber section and secured by means of stitching to the leather sections.

2. A belt comprising end sections andan intermediate section 0f rubber, a strip of 75 canvas vulcanized to each end of said rubber section and secured by means of stitching to the end sections.

3. A belt comprising end sections of substantially inelastic material and an intermediate section of rubber, a -strip of canvas vulcanized to each end of' said rubber section and secured by means of stitching to the end sections.

In testimony whereof I affix my si ature.

GEORGE LANGGINS.. 

